Anna Leonhardt

The gallery is pleased to present Resonance, a solo exhibition by Anna Leonhardt presenting a new body of work. This marks the artist's fifth solo presentation with the gallery in New York.

Anna Leonhardt's paintings hold a deliberate contradiction: weighty surfaces, built through accumulation and physical effort, in which the forms somehow seem to dance. Working with an almost mathematical economy — four colors, four corners, large against small — she builds images where balance isn't imposed but detonated from within.

She conceives of them as abstract landscapes: a horizontal field through which vertical forms rise. It's a sensibility shaped by her training at the Dresden Academy, where technical rigor underwrites even the most intuitive gesture, and where, over time, color came to claim the canvas edge to edge.

Anna Leonhardt (b. 1981, Pforzheim, Germany) lives and works between New York and Berlin. Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe and the United States, including solo exhibitions at Galerie Friese in Berlin and a long-standing relationship with Marc Straus in New York. Her paintings are held in public collections including the Kunstfonds Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstsammlung des Sächsischen Landtages, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst Otterndorf and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, alongside numerous private collections internationally.